Big Green 2018 All-American corner Isiah Swann is ranked the 56th best small-school prospect. Breaking into the rankings at No. 93 is former Dartmouth defensive end Niko Lalos.
The top Ivy League prospect per Draft Scout is Princeton quarterback Kevin Davidson at No. 22. Also in the rankings is Yale offensive guard Dieter Eiselen, who comes in at No. 88.
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There's an interesting column on the FootballScoop site making the argument that ties in college football weren't the worst thing ever. From the column (LINK):At seven overtimes, at four overtimes, the point is obvious: the two teams have battled to the best of their abilities for the allotted time and then some, and neither was better than the other. They played, and the results proved them equals on that day. No matter how you tweak the rules, it obscures the point that the game has already rendered a verdict, and that is one of a split decision.
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NBC Sports is doing profiles of Olympic hopefuls and a former Dartmouth teammate of Abbey Cooper (D'Agostino's) who you know better as That Certain Dartmouth '14, shared a link in which Abbey talks about her fall in the 2016 Rio Olympics, her recovery from knee surgery and her dreams of competing in the next Summer Games. Watch the video and read the story HERE.
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Former Harvard hoops guard Seth Towns has chosen Ohio State over Duke as the top-ranked graduate transfer in the nation, and onetime Columbia center Patrick Tape, who sat out last winter to preserve his final year of eligibility, is now being courted by Duke. As noted here several days ago, Dartmouth senior Brendan Barry, who missed last winter and has garnered interest from several Power Five programs, will follow former Big Green teammate Evan Boudreaux into the major college ranks.
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EXTRA POINT
Warm temperature and sun the past several weeks had left us with just a few patches of snow in shady areas until a storm came through and dumped eight inches on us last night.
While that's a little more snow than we expected I found myself marveling that more than a week ago the weather folks had correctly called for a storm with some accumulation to arrive yesterday afternoon, which was spot on. Likewise, the meteorologists more than a week in advance of it happening last week correctly told us we would watch the daytime high go from the 30s one day to the mid-60s the next and back to the 30s again the day after.
The weather people don't always get it right, and it's easy to blame them when they get it wrong, but I think when we weren't watching over the past 20 years or so their forecasts got gradually better and better and better. Nowadays it's a little depressing when they tell you we are going to have three consecutive days of rain because you can be pretty sure they are right, but it sure is nice when they say it's going to be sunny and pleasant for most of their 10-day forecast because they don't usually miss by much.
